The LA Writers’ Workshop Play Reading Series presents six brand-new play readings from local playwrights—Maddox Pennington, Kevin Douglas, Bernardo Cubría, Keiko Green, Christina Pumariega, and Erika Sheffer—at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and REDCAT. This culminates a year-long commission and workshop process with CTG.

"Lauren Sanchez" by Bernardo Cubría
As billionaire bride-to-be Lauren Sánchez prepares for her lavish wedding in Venice, Italy, a very different Lauren Sánchez in Venice, California watches her father detained by ICE, igniting protests across the city. As their worlds collide, the spectacle grows increasingly surreal, with appearances from Usher, Eva Longoria, Jeff Bezos, and a literal slime monster named Stephen Miller. In this biting satire about privilege, coincidence, and responsibility, two women who share a name must reckon with the wildly unequal lives they lead.